40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire You

Posted by Gisele Muller on Jul 5, 2010 | 49 Comments

Restaurant websites are a great place to find inspiring designs and also to check out some nice ways of displaying photographs within a design. Since the main content of a restaurant is their food – or at least it should be – there is no better thing to do than show beautiful images of the food. So for this post, I’ve rounded up 40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire You. You’ll notice that these restaurant web designs use images in a variety of ways to put the focus where it needs to be. Whether it’s a full background or in a slideshow, the images make it all about the food. So here we go, enjoy the tasty selection and remember that sometimes images are better than a thousand words.

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49 comments

cristina
July 5, 2010
So cool this inspiring collection!!!
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Maria Fidalgo
July 5, 2010
great selection
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Ben
July 5, 2010
http://www.yosushi.com is also worth a look.
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- Raphael
  June 2, 2012
  That was cool.. I am looking for a new design.. Those options was enough to open my mind in a wide way..
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Oles
July 5, 2010
Auberge de lill — the best
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Nik
July 5, 2010
I’m greatly hungry now, thank you
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psdcollector
July 5, 2010
i feel hungry.
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Rhys Little
July 5, 2010
You can get food photography really wrong and especially in respect of web design! But these show how good you can make it look! Good inspiration, thanks!
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Jennifer R
July 5, 2010
I think almost restaurant websites are using warm color and big imaages
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Jason
July 5, 2010
Any idea who did the Marie Catrib’s site? They are right around the corner from me in Grand Rapids and very tasty.

Awesome sites btw!
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Michael Hobson
July 5, 2010
We just did a site for Caldesi Restaurant in Marylbone, London.

http://www.caldesi.com/
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Yasutatsu
July 5, 2010
i wanna eat all!
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GWD | Good Web Design
July 5, 2010
Yummie! Good Web Design is making me hungry for more…
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luisbv
July 5, 2010
Let me show one, i do not own, but i love it, is a vegetarian restaurant in Medellin, Colombia..

http://www.ricoverdeo.com/
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Vectorbunker
July 5, 2010
Nyam Nyam collection,.. thx for sharing
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Jordan Walker
July 6, 2010
Those are very nice and make me hungry.
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Brad
July 6, 2010
Very nice, never wanted to design and eat at the same time.
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Carl Rosekilly
July 7, 2010
I was the guy behind the design and concept of Twelve Restaurant, when I worked at the relevant agency.

Thank you for the feature and appreciation.
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Multyshades
July 7, 2010
Its a lovely portfolio and really impressive examples for any food related items, thanks for share.
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Jae Xavier
July 7, 2010
TasteSpotting. Love the title.

Culinaria: Text in the middle just does not work with the photograph; too distracting. If they can fix that, the site would look nice.
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Victoria Blount
July 8, 2010
This a great post for inspiring a designer for a restaurant web design as there is a varied selection above.
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Ryan Wake
July 8, 2010
Wow, great list. Where was this when I was redesigning the http://giosmunster.com website?
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Ana França
July 11, 2010
Nice collection!
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restauracje Kraków
July 15, 2010
Very good stuff. Thank You
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Hans Fjällemark
July 18, 2010
Check out our restaurant’s website at http://www.sarina.se.
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Backgrounds
July 21, 2010
I love this list and wish I’d found it earlier for inspiration as I recently finished designing a restaurant website for a friend and at times was at a loss as to the best way to pull it all together. Excellent list and wonderful designs.
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bill
July 22, 2010
excellent collections.
it’s been a while I read an entire site from start to finish!
well done.
bookmarked hours ago!
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Renee G
August 15, 2010
yumm…and recipes look just as good as the designs,thanks for this nice collection!
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Adlo
September 3, 2010
great inspiration, makes me hungry just looking at them!
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Rhonda B
October 10, 2010
This is a great round up of web designs. Thanks for sharing!
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Patryk Gagan
January 14, 2011
perfect inspiration
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Jim Tourville
August 7, 2011
Bookmarked, great collection.

You’re right Gisele, the food imagery makes the site look amazing!
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Mentesmodernas
August 31, 2011
Great selection.
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WebFlavr
September 1, 2011
Great selection of sites. You can check my website which is gallery of best in food web design.
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Mike Caran
September 7, 2011
We ended up using a service for our restaurant called Theme Force ( http://www.theme-force.com ), and we’re very satisfied (especially with the boost in traffic we’ve received).
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John Coppa
September 30, 2011
Great collection of sites.

Here’s another great restaurant site to check out – http://www.901dc.com

Cheers!
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Mohanraaj
December 28, 2011
really great colletions….
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Aritz
January 19, 2012
Interesting collection… And i really was needing inspiration… A pair of “ideas” straight from here… hahaha
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Darryn Cooke
January 23, 2012
I would love to throw a site I just created for a restaurant into the hat should you ever make a second list.

http://www.tortillazgrill.com/
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Web Design Guildford
February 7, 2012
We have a web site for a restaurant coming up. This was very helpful.

Thanks
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Adlex Designs
March 8, 2012
Great post. Many restaurants miss the mark with their existing sites because 95% of them have budgets under $2000. We just launched a new website for a restaurant in Northern New Jersey, Luce Restaurant in Caldwell. http://www.lucerestaurant.com
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KS - Web Designer
May 2, 2012
Great sites. Another one I would like to suggest is Roux at Parliament Square, in London. Their site is great and no I am not associated with it in any way.
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Ted
May 3, 2012
Thanks Gisele! Very helpful list…. with how bad restaurant website are this must have taken you a while to put together! The only one I don’t like is the Giraffe website. All the other ones are awesome.

http://www.restaurantconnectinc.com/
Ted
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David
May 20, 2012
I’ve got some other restaurant websites that you might enjoy:

http://www.concentricsrestaurants.com (ok, restaurant consulting company!)
http://www.prato-wp.com
http://www.lumaonpark.com
http://www.tapat1180.com/home.php
http://www.parishatl.com/home.php

-David
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Restaurant Web Design
May 29, 2012
A great mix of high quality, professional web designs – thanks for taking the time to put together this impressive collection!
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William
July 16, 2012
Really shows how food photography is such an integral part of a restaurant’s web site design. Without it, aside from all the other effects, it really doesn’t convey “We’re a restaurant” does it…
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Chris
August 28, 2012
We just launched a site for celebrity chef, Sharone Hakman:

http://sharonehakman.com

Currently the site’s main purpose is to promote the chef himself, but we will be adding more food related content, photos and recipes as we go….YUM!
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Web Design Inspiration Today
September 19, 2012
Great list as always. Some of them are already in my collection. I will add them up the rest to my collection..

See my collection here

http://webdesigninspirationtoday.com/design/channel/restaurant
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Tim
November 13, 2012
Most of these websites are like most advertising today: ineffective.

They “look great” but violate many rules of web usability – which causes people to leave because they CAN’T USE THEM without being frustrated.

Have you tried looking at the Daimu or Auberge de lill site on an iPhone? Do that, then tell me how “great” they are.

Giraffe and PicFresh are two that are the least-worst out of the bunch. But even they have issues.
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